Pushing Daisies is the latest import from the US that has a British woman in one of the lead roles (see also Bionic Woman and The Sarah Conner Chronicles) and which is being shown on ITV (see Bionic Woman and Entourage). However, they are showing it on the main channel,…
A common theme in these last few posts about my recent television viewing is the odd choice of channel that airs the show. Being Human joins this list because BBC3 is not the home of supernatural drama. Being Human is about two friends who work in menial jobs in a…
I don’t understand the way ITV thinks: it puts Dexter on ITV1 (albeit late at night) but puts Entourage and The Office: An American Workplace. It’s a shame that they were able to purchase them in the first place – they are not the usual programmes that people who watch…
The idea of a serial killer who only kills other serial killers sounds like it could be a really clichéd B-movie. Instead, the television series Dexter, based on the Dexter novels of Jeff Lindsay (pen name of Jeffry P. Freundlich), is a fascinating and perfectly judged character study as well…
When I first heard that this was being made, I really didn’t think it could work. The first two films were fabulous chase films – there was no way they could do that in a television series on a weekly basis. Television can do many interesting things, but it can’t…
Reaper stars Bret Harrison (who looks a little like a young Craig Berko, who I always remember from The Long Kiss Goodnight) as Sam, a slacker who works at a home improvement store, whose parents sold his soul to the Devil (Ray Wise). On his 21st birthday, he becomes a…
My best mate went to the US to work and live before I did. When I went to visit him, he knew the head cue card guy at Saturday Night Live who got us in – we got to watch the rehearsals (around 2pm) and then we were in the…
I lived and worked in the US between the end of 2000 and 2002, so I finally got to watch film and television shows as they happened, rather than waiting for them for ages in the UK. I could see The Daily Show as Jon Stewart was hitting his stride,…
David Duchovny stars in Californication, a new show which trys to make writers look sexy (lots of shows about writers at the moment – 30 Rock, Studio 60; perhaps they should have a number in it?). He plays Hank Moody, a writer of a famous novel that has been turned…
A second series for both these shows. Saxondale returns with Steve Coogan with his own hair blonded and longer. The rest of the cast return to back him up in a very capable manner; however, it seems to have moved away from being a sitcom and into a gentle drama…